I had a more open-ended conception of Series 3 than of the preceding Series. I actually did use groups of the Notes as the basis for book manuscripts, but continued the Series after I’d completed the manuscripts. The first of these books was entitled The Linguistic Construction of Reality. I seem to have completed the manuscript in 1984 although it was not published until 1987. The second was entitled Culture in Language and Linguistics. It seems to have been completed in 1991, but was never published. Notes 43-45 were written after its completion.
I completed the last Note of Series 3 in 1993. For several reasons I decided not to continue the Series. In particular, the University Computing Center’s printer that I had been using had been removed from use. But I was retired by that time, and this mode of production and distribution no longer appealed to me. The World Wide Web was becoming more available and seemed to offer more interesting possibilities, so I began a new series (Series 4) as Webpages.
However, I subsequently (in 1996-98) posted some of the Notes of Series 3 on the Web where they could be accessible to anyone that might ever want to see any of them--where, in other words, I could feel that I had in effect published them and thereby discharged whatever duty I incurred by writing them. I've included the full list of Series 3 below (click list).
I am also attempting to provide an index. This should be viewed primarily as an experiment--at least at this juncture. The idea wouldn't have occurred to me except for the fact that I already had an index that I had prepared over time for my own use.
However, the index is keyed to the page numbers of the printed version--a computer printout with continuous pagination--and the web pages don't have any comparable pagination. What could be done? (Note that there are too many references for it to seem practical simply to link every one to the place in one of the Notes that it refers to).
What I've decided to try is this: The index (given below) still uses the continuous pagination. Then, for each Note in the list of the Notes below, I give the page numbers included in that Note. Therefore, it should be relatively easy for anyone seeking to find a place in the text where a particular item found in the index was mentioned, to discover which Note it occurred in. It is also easy from the same place in the list to click on the link to that particular Note (if it's one that's been put on line).
When the relevant Note has been called up, the reader will find at the top, links to each of the pages that are referred to in the Index.
To review, then, the procedure is this:
1. In the Index, find a page reference (for illustration, say page 30)
2. Check the list of ELNs (of Series 3), and find that page 30 is in Note 2.
3. Call up Note 2 by clicking on its link.
4. At the top of Note 2, click on the link for page 30. This will take you to
the place that marks the top of the page in question in the printed version.
As I said, this is above all an experiment. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have about how it could be improved, or in general how an index for hypertext documents should be constructed. I will also appreciate having errors called to my attention--when one prepares something like this, there are very many places indeed where it is possible for errors to creep in.
Click here to go to the Index.
Click here to go to the list on Ethnolinguistic Notes of Series 3.
ELN3: 1. On what it is like to have language (pp. 1-21)
ELN3: 2. Defining what linguistics is about (and why) (pp. 22-43)
ELN3: 3. The role of language in the acquisition of knowledge (pp. 44-55)
ELN3: 4. The question of the nature of language (pp. 56-76)
ELN3: 5. Ways of talking about things (pp. 77-101)
ELN3: 6. Thoughts on translation and meaning: A progress report (pp. 102-142)
ELN3: 7. More on ways of talking about things: Contexts (pp. 143-160)
ELN3: 8. The evolution of language (pp. 161-175)
ELN3: 9. More on the nature of language: The intertranslatability postulate and its consequences (pp. 176-186)
ELN3: 10. Reality and its representation by language (pp. 187-200)
ELN3: 11. The linguistic construction of reality (pp. 201-216)
ELN3: 12. Translation: Isomorphism versus paraphrase (pp. 217-226)
ELN3: 13. The relation between language and thought (pp. 227-237)
ELN3: 14. More on the nature of language: The place of sociolinguistics (pp. 238-249)
ELN3: 15. More on reality and its representation by language: Conceptual worlds (pp. 250-259)
ELN3: 16. A second progress report: On the nature of language (pp. 260-276)
ELN3: 17. Why I do not believe in phonemes: On the cognitive validity of linguistic theories of phonology (pp. 277-304)
ELN3: 18. Basic vocabulary (pp. 305-315)
ELN3: 19. More on the reality of phonemes (pp. 316-328)
ELN3: 20. More on "Language 2" (pp. 329-344)
ELN3: 21. More on autonomous text (pp. 345-353)
ELN3: 22. Some observations about boundaries and about open systems (pp. 354-363)
ELN3: 23. Ongoing discourses (pp. 364-376)
ELN3: 24. On the notion "linguistic description" (pp. 377-389)
ELN3: 25. The intertranslatability postulate and its consequences (pp. 390-402)
ELN3: 26. Perlocutionary translation (pp. 403-415)
ELN3: 27. Idealization in historical linguistics (pp. 416-433)
ELN3: 28. The translation of casual speech (pp. 434-444)
ELN3: 29. The post-Linnean world-view and languages of universal translation (pp. 445-447)
ELN3: 30. Why translation works (to the extent that it does) (pp. 448-454)
ELN3: 31. "What they would say in the same situation" (pp. 455-473)
ELN3: 32. The idea of a theory of translation: Some general observations (pp. 474-484)
ELN3: 33. The idea of a theory of translation: On shared and unshared cultural backgrounds (pp. 485-494)
ELN3: 34. The idea of a theory of translation: The object of the verb "to translate" (pp. 495-512)
ELN3: 35. The association of situations with linguistic expressions (pp. 513-539)
ELN3: 36. A linguistics without the langue? (pp. 540-556)
ELN3: 37. Recognition strategy and analysis strategy in language use. (pp. 557-566)
ELN3: 38. The notion of "natural language" (pp. 567-582)
ELN3: 39. On minimal native-speaker competence (pp. 583-591)
ELN3: 40. Culture in language: What part of linguistic competence is natural? (pp. 592-616)
ELN3: 41. Is contemporary linguistic theory an instrument of cultural imperialism? (pp. 617-639)
ELN3: 42. Further remarks on monoculture imperialism (pp. 640-649)
ELN3: 43. Another attempt to explain why I have misgivings about what we tell people about language (pp. 650-670)
ELN3: 44. What is the language faculty? (pp. 671-678)
ELN3: 45. What are languages? (pp. 679-695)
Back to beginning
achieved status 588
acquisition of knowledge (role of language in) 44
ad hoc elements 210
Adamic language doctrine 201, 269
"advocates" 392
affordance (Gibson) 144, 161
alphabetic writing 316
apt-for-encoding-reality form (of language) 179
articulatory "chunks" 289
articulatory "subroutines" 290, 316
"as-if" 199, 331
autonomous text 336, 345, 652, 659
basic (core) vocabulary 167, 220, 305
"basic idea" 91
boundaries 354
bounded systems 354
_____incidentally closed (bounded) 355
_____intrinsically closed 355
Carnapian model of language structure 202, 262
casual speech 434
categorization by exemplars 356
characterization 90, 93, 121
"close enough" 339
cognitive map 145
common-sense reality 189, 251
communicative transactions 405
_____interactive 409
_____unilateral 409
computed meaning 455
conceptual elements 187, 213
conceptual situation 187, 208, 250, 266
conceptual world 250, 265, 375
_____of an individual 254
_____of a language 209, 255
_____of a speech community 246
"conduit metaphor" 337
constant-point-of-view ideal 46, 360
content form 105
context
_____physical (places) 144
_____situation 148
conventional sense 121
convergence, linguistic 85, 105, 341
courtroom 395
cultural-encoding (conception of language) 69, 447
descriptions
_____ SAAS (structural-analysis-of-artifacts-of-speech) 682, 693
_____ KOL (knowledge-of-language in the minds/brains of humans) 682, 693
discourse 366
_____current 367
_____ongoing 215, 364
_____recallable 367
discourse components 683, 687
discursive context 364
discursive formations (Foucault) 375
discursive tradition 374
_____subject-matter oriented 372
discursive unit 365
display (communication by) 165
effect (of speech acts) 436, 439
emic elements 92, 116
emic situations 116, 149, 166
epistemological instrument 44, 655
epistemological strategy of science 46
equivalence, equivalent 103, 154, 161
evolution of language 17, 161, 263, 337, 666
examples (memory of) 685, 687
experiential gestalt 130, 158
expository prose style 352
expository strategy 215, 268
expresser 406
fully-formed idea 91
functions of language, prototypical 656
gaps (vs. oppositions) 355
genre 372
goodness of fit (between linguistic expression & reality) 193, 252
governing systems 652, 668, 669, 681, 689
_____ as occurring in natural languages 654
grammatical adjustments (to content form) 113
"grooved" 318
having something to say 31
"hooking onto the world" (language) 202
idealization 416
_____permissible 350
idiomaticity 84
idiomatology 133
illocutionary force 409
incorrigibility 332
indicating (vs. saying) 30
"information society" 336
intertranslatability 105
intertranslatability postulate 176, 352, 390, 403, 448, 262
_____locutionary interpretation 391, 396
_____perlocutionary interpretation 391, 396, 410
isomorphic 442
isomorphic with 380
"jury" 392
ken of audience 267
kinds 162, 265
knowledge
_____analytic 287, 691
_____holistic 287
knowledge-how 287
knowledge-that 51
KOL (knowledge-of-language in the minds/brains of humans)
_____descriptions 682
_____as a syntactic system plus a lexicon 681
_____as a repertoire of discourse components and their uses 683
_____as a memory store of experiences (examples)
685
language
_____nature of 56, 161, 176, 260
_____ordinary 49
_____universal 351
_____well-defined 351
_____standard 664
_____"natural" 665
_____"philosophers'" 655, 667
_____locus of 680
"Language 1" 320
"Language 2" 320, 329
Language "acquisition" 672
language "modernization" 219, 236
language-culture system 185
language-interpreting device (humans as) 25
language faculty 659, 665, 668, 671
_____inherent 671
_____learned 671
languages of universal translation 445, 450
language partitions into languages 661, 668, 689, 690, 694(n3)
langue (Saussurian) 382
lexical principle 165
lexicostatistical theory 305
lexification 92, 106, 283, 301
linguistic change 379
linguistic description 377
_____adequately-characterizing 378
linguistic expression 435, 436
_____formulated (=formulations) 434
_____literary 435
linguistic repertoire 172, 250
linguistics 22
_____ historical 679
_____ synchronic 679
mapping of sign vehicles onto nature 57
"mapping" picture of the world 286
meaning 102
_____nature of 261
_____referential 174, 239, 264
_____situated 437
_____social 174, 239, 264
_____speaker's 132, 217, 274
_____text 132, 217
meaning-by-(semantic)-computation 455
message 440, 443, 677
metacommunication 42
"mission-oriented" science 334
_____theoretical linguistics as 346
misunderstanding 369, 370
"mopping-up operations" (Kuhn) 330
motor skill (in pronunciation) 318
narratization 159
"normal discourse" (Rorty) 94, 155, 199, 331, 375
"normal science" (Kuhn) 330
objective situation 460
_____of the speaker 455
ontologies 164
open systems 351, 354, 364
_____intrinsically open 355, 364
_____presumptively open 358
oppositions (distinctive features) 297
oppositions (vs. gaps) 355
paradigms (Kuhnian) 651
_____ of linguistics 652
perseverance (of signans) 313
phatic content 373
phonology, theories of 277
post-Linnean world-view 445
primary process 4
problematicity 332
pseudo-reality 116
psychological reality (phonemes) 316
public knowledge 89, 171, 335
purposes 406, 440, 673
_____long-range 407
_____low-level 407
_____motivating 408
ready-to-be-encoded form (of mental representations) 68, 182
ready-to-be-encoded form (of reality) 178
reality construction 36, 52, 324
_____linguistic 187, 201
reality maintenance 322, 332
root metaphor 213, 258
SAAS (structural-analysis-of-artifacts-of-speech) descriptions 682
sayable 34
sayer 120, 171
saying something (what is it?) 27
Sapir-Whorf 227
schemata 131, 146
secondary process 12
segmentation 284, 293
sense 92
sensible world 253
signification 93
signs
_____ad hoc 93, 135, 213
_____conventional 92, 187, 213
_____motivated 90, 92, 121
_____sentence-level 116
_____word-level 120
signantia (signans) 305
_____(as gestalts) 318
signata (signatum) 265, 305
"silent movie" representation 206
situations in which we speak 150
"skeptics" 392
sociolinguistics 238
"something like" 380
speaking "roughly" 195
specification of condition of instantiation 18, 35, 117, 166, 215, 267
speech, What precedes it? 674
speech act 150, 435
speech-act vehicles 119
status quo ante (linguistic change) 422, 424
stereotypes 190
story 159
strategies (for achieving purposes) 407, 673
strategies
_____motivating 408
subject-matter content 374
subject-matter views 357
subjective situation 460
superorganic 278
syntactic principle 165
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic 339, 263
syntax-dictionary model 676, 681
teachings of the profession 650
"things' that can be talked about 86
thought 227
traduttore traditore 184
translation 72, 102, 210
_____isomorphic 217, 261
_____locutionary 403, 436, 443
_____nature(s) of 84
_____paraphrastic 217
_____perlocutionary 403, 434, 436
translation equivalents 110, 153, 218
_____isomorphic 218
_____quasi-isomorphic 218
transposition 114
truth-conditional semantics 108, 188
underdetermination 440, 444
understander 406
understanding 81, 127, 368, 408
unilinear evolutionism 60, 352
universal-encoder (conception of language) 67, 447
way of talking (about something) 77, 143, 168, 213, 268, 278, 322
what-they-would-say-in-the-same-situation principle of
_____translation 456
"World 3" (Popper) 320
world-view 143
written language 660
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